297985 - processor and memory overuse - all the time

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[szakal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When i run firefox it statrts using 20mb of ram, and 5% of processor. in no time
it is more than 40% of processor ALL the time when FireFox is running. And after
10min more than 40mb of ram i used.
This makes firefox unusefull to use, as computer is almost standing in one place
and you cannot do anythink but close firefox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run FireFox
2.Thats all
3.Turn FireFox off and turn IE on because firefox almost killed computer

Actual Results:  
I must turn firefox off because of using around 50% of processor and i cannot do
anything.

Expected Results:  
less memory and processor usage.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

the 5% - 20Mb completely normal
if it goes up to 40% just on a blank page there is something wrong

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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